The local Association COC Haaglanden, member of the Dutch National Federation of Associations for Integration of Homo-sexuality COC, has recently fielded a fact-finding mission to Poland. The mission goal was, to investigate how our Polish counterparts, i.e. Lambda-Warsaw as well as the National Campaign Against Homophobia (KPH), could best be supported from the Dutch end, by COC. Such intended Dutch support would fit the strong city-link existing since 13 years between The Hague and Warsaw Municipalities.

The resulting mission report, enclosed, will be distributed widely, e.g. to the United Nations, the European Union, diplomatic posts, interested academic institutions in Poland and The Netherlands, and to the media.

Please feel free to use and distribute this report further onwards, as you deem fit.

Your possible comments, questions, feedback etc. will be welcomed at the following e-mail address: wimmonasso@wanadoo.nl

We hope, that the report will enhance the understanding of the Polish situation, and will trigger more international moral and political as well as tangible support for our courageous Polish peers in LGBT organisations such as KPH and Lambda.

With kind regards,

Wim Antonio Monasso LLM   and                                                    

Mr Sander van der Eijk

Working Group on International Affairs and Politics